Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
July 1, 1980.
When you are in consciousness, you understand the nature of consciousness. This consciousness is extinguishing, knowingness is disappearing, but nothing affects you, the Absolute - that is the moment of death, but what matters? The vital breath is leaving the body, the "I Amness" receding, but the "I Amness" is going to the Absolute. That is the greatest moment, the greatest moment of immortality. The "I Amness" was there, that movement was there, and I observe, it is extinguished. The ignorant one will get very frightened at the moment of death - he is struggling - but for the jnAni, it is the happiest moment.
When you are in consciousness, you understand the nature of consciousness. This consciousness is extinguishing, knowingness is disappearing, but nothing affects you, the Absolute - that is the moment of death, but what matters? The vital breath is leaving the body, the "I Amness" receding, but the "I Amness" is going to the Absolute. That is the greatest moment, the greatest moment of immortality. The "I Amness" was there, that movement was there, and I observe, it is extinguished. The ignorant one will get very frightened at the moment of death - he is struggling - but for the jnAni, it is the happiest moment.
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